It’s astonishing how base level knowledge about aircraft like the Captor-M being a great radar to bridge the gap between AESA and mechanical radars being completely ignored by Gaijin.
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All they need to do is give us P-Track already and everyone would complain a lot less, reuse some code from the AESA/PESA radars and bam!
No more Goldfish-M.
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→ Major Rework
added Subgroups
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maybe you should make a dedicated thread for the bug-reports, so it is esier to find
How do you manage this, as whenever i fly out of the targeting pods gimble the aim resets and so it no longer guides the missile in, either that or it delocks meaning i have to manually guide it in for the last 5 seconds while dodging 4 missiles comign at me? I keep trying and cant see to find the correct key series or key binds. Any tips would be welcome as my best bet is to fly above their radar and fire from above until i can come in closer.
A tutorial would be even better, or a link to one of your videos with a good example.
so I see the SPEAR 3 is an internal report wonder if that means there is an actual chance of it comming or not, because that is a LOT of missing weapons
You know… They did the exact same thing to Germany right? They gave the Japanese Alpha Jet the C.20 engines while the German Alpha jets have the C.6 engines, despite all of them being upgraded to C.20.
And the best thing about this is, they just got the C.20 name; they still have the same power output as the C.6 engines.
But it’s already reported internally.
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I’ll make a step by step video at some point. I realise just listing what you do in order isn’t helpful for the practical implementation haha. So let me get some clips and get back to you :).
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from messing around with the brimstone I have found that if you fire it and drop the floor from more then 10km and there is a pantsir they will intercept up to 6 of them, with in 10km its a lot harder it would seem, the most kills I’ve had in a game is 4 as when you start racking up kills people jump in spaa for revenge and if you are half way through a run and a pantsir spawns in not a whole lot you can do but hope lol
I’ve seen them used to great effect against SPAA in very close quarters, but you need to be good at placing your SPI markers in third person, its very high work load which means you’re more likely to make mistakes. But when it goes well it looks brutal.
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Any good fixes to the Eurofighter in the next patch will be welcome and appreciated. Even showing just 10% of the compassion for the Eurofighter compared to other aircraft would already be a good start
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oh yeah its defiantly got the potential to be incredibly deadly just need a bit more skill to pull it off is all
@Gunjob I wonder, since we have the comment from smin saying that the CAPTOR-M will get its GMTI mode back, since than have what (5?) Months passed, should it be getting reported or do we thrust the devs that they know what they are doing?
GMTI is ground search radar right?
Anyone here know statistics of the PIRATE IRL? Wondering what would be the best IRST in the game (eventually after the 30km cap gets removed) from what I’ve heard it should be the best irst in the game, but not entirely sure because I don’t have any statistics on it.
For example, ols-35 of the su-35s has these statistics:
Referring to a non afterburning su-30
Head-on: ~50km
Rear aspect: ~90km
±90 azimuth, -15 to +60 elevation
Tws of 4 targets
30 km laser for ground targets
20km laser range finding for air to air targets
Imaging capability
From what Ik rn this is the best irst, anything else is just too classified to really know.
I can see stats in the original suggestion but what is it measuring against?
Yep, also known as Ground Moving Target Indicator or short GMTI
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This doesn’t seem to be linking to the whole comment I made but the TL:DR is according to Austrian MoD and UK MoD:
Head-on; 80km
Rear aspect; 150km
Photographic identification range; 50km
Azimuth and elevation limits ~150 ° × 60 °
TWS of 500 targets
Ground targeting range; 50km
Passive rangefinding; no limit on range finding distance, but accuracy would drop with range, but its good enough for a launch at max range limits but maybe not enough for a passive 2-Way-Datalink shot without the missile needing to go pitbull.
It’s also immune to flares and IR countermeasures completely.
PIRATE was tested against several targets of opportunity, these included to the extent that I know of Tornado, Mig-29, F-4, other Eurofighters, B-2 bomber, F-22, F-35, various helicopters including Chinook, Merlin, Wildcat, Lynx, numerous airliners and civilian aircraft. PIRATE is normally left in operation and constantly scans in order to update its target recognition list so basically anything a Eurofighter has been within up to 150km of it will be able to recognise and classify.
Should be noted that the system is entirely passive and does provide kinematic ranging, as far as we can tell it does this very well as the Gripen reused the same base design in its SKYWARD-G IRST however it is supposedly worse. Also afaik every other passive IRST has been suggested that for accuracy improvements pairing of multiple sensors, this has never been even suggested for PIRATE.
It’s also not vulnerable to thermal shielding, as according to things like the ADAD report on which PIRATE was based, thermal shielding creates a ‘black hole’ around the aircraft making it easier for PIRATE to detect, classify, track and even identify such targets. The only caveat here would be if an aircraft could match its thermal signature to the background, but to do that you’d need to firstly know where the reference aircraft is from you to see what it would otherwise see, and again, passive system that defeats the purpose, you’d also then have to develop thermal shielding technology that can adapt to a certain temperature. At that point just copy PIRATE but better or make a better radar that makes PIRATE irrelevant.
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Can’t use internal FLIR when carrying TGP:
https://community.gaijin.net/issues/p/warthunder/i/fGiynsE5YT7T
Assuming this is correct, was this reported for the FLIR?
Since currently the FLIR is limited to ±30 in both azimuth and elevation
What kind of target? With afterburner or without?